Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau swiped back at President-elect Donald Trump after he floated the possibility of forcing Canada into becoming territory of the United States.
Trump during a press conference Tuesday refused to rule out the possibility of using “economic force” to compel Canada into the Union, claiming it would be advantageous for American national security.
“There isn’t a snowball’s chance in hell that Canada would become part of the United States,”
Trudeau responded on X. “Workers and communities in both our countries benefit from being each other’s biggest trading and security partner.”
There isn’t a snowball’s chance in hell that Canada would become part of the United States.
— Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) January 7, 2025
Workers and communities in both our countries benefit from being each other’s biggest trading and security partner.
During his Mar-a-Lago press conference, Trump explained that annexing Canada and Greenland would be better for America’s economic interests because the US is subsidizing Canada to the tune of $200 billion a year.
“Why are we supporting a country, $200 billion plus a year? Our military is at their disposal, all these other things. They should be a state. That’s what I told Trudeau when he came down,” Trump told reporters.
🚨 TRUMP on Canada: "Why are we supporting a country $200 billion+ a year? Our military is at their disposal — all these other things. They should be a state. That's what I told Trudeau when he came down."
— johnny maga (@_johnnymaga) January 7, 2025
Yeah, he was never "joking" about this. pic.twitter.com/A6BWM22dhh
When asked if he would use military force to annex Canada, Trump replied, “No — economic force. Because Canada and the United States, that would really be something. You get rid of that artificially-drawn line and you take a look at what that looks like, and it would also be much better for national security — don’t forget, we basically protect Canada.”
President Trump says he is prepared to use economic pressure to force Canada to become part of the United States
— George (@BehizyTweets) January 7, 2025
I REPEAT. TRUMP IS SERIOUS. WOW! pic.twitter.com/98zrWoW3QX
“But here’s the problem with Canada. So many friends up there. I love the Canadian people. They’re great, but we’re spending hundreds of billions a year to protect it. We’re spending hundreds of billions a year to take care of Canada. We lose in trade deficits. We’re losing mass– we don’t need their cars,’ Trump said.
“You know, they make 20% of our cars. We don’t need that. I’d rather make them in Detroit. We don’t need the cars. We don’t need their lumber. We have massive fields of lumber. We don’t need their lumber…We don’t need anything they have. We don’t need their dairy products, we have more than they have. We don’t need anything.”
“So why are we losing $200 billion a year and more to protect Canada? And I said that to as I called him, Governor Trudeau,” Trump said in a tongue-in-cheek remark about the prime minister.
This comes a day after Trudeau announced his resignation as prime minister and leader of the Liberal Party.
Canada is the largest U.S. trading partner, and the U.S. is running about a $6 billion trade deficit.
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